Vintage Original Hamilton Letterpress Big Printers Drawer 89 Division Printers Tray

Title: Vintage Original Hamilton Letterpress Big Printers Drawer 89 Division Printers Tray.
Manufacturer: Hamilton, England.
Info: Genuine Hamilton Letterpress Typographers Printers Tray, 89 Inserts, from a typesetters workbench. Ready to hang on the wall.
Includes original Drawer handle with the Hamilton name. With corner pins on divider corners. 
Reinforced with metal drawer sliders on the base.
The Hamilton Manufacturing Company was started by James Edward Hamilton and began producing type in 1880. Lyman Nash, editor of the 
Two Rivers Chronicle, asked Hamilton to make letters because he was short on time to order them from Chicago. Hamilton's letters 
printed so well that he began to take orders from other nearby newspapers.
Printers trays were first used in the printing process in 1880 which held the pieces of an alphabet set.
Something else that has stuck with us from the early days of printing is how we refer to capital and small letters. In the old 
days, printers trays were organised in font families and stored in drawers. Small letters were stored in the bottom drawers and 
capital letters were stored towards the top, hence the terms upper case and lower case. 
Great for displaying collections or design your own display with whatever appeals, there are no rules on what to display on your 
printers tray.
Height: 43cm.
Width: 82cm.
Depth: 4cm.
Condition: Very Good, used working typesetters printers tray, no broken dividers.
Price: R 895.00 Inc Vat.
Due to the size and or fragility of this article it is not available for International Buyers.
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